On Friday 17 October 2003 09:18, Stroller wrote: > On Oct 16, 2003, at 11:42 am, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Thursday 16 October 2003 19:34, Stroller wrote: > >> Since your friend has a fast connection, you could `emerge -Ufp world > > > > Why do you advise to use -U instead of -u? > > I don't really. > > > ...Any particular reason why you would advise new users to keep > > broken packages on their system? > > No particular reason. I was just in a hurry this morning to (be helpful > / show how clever I am) [delete as applicable] and wasn't really paying > attention.
No worries... I guess I should not have jumped to conclusions. > I'm sorry for my typo & apologise if I misadvised anyone. In my > defense, in this *particular* instance, I doubt that it'll make much > difference - I don't think there will be too many downgrades to an > install CD which was perhaps burned a week or two ago. In this instance, there probably wouldn't be any downgrades. I just wanted to make the point that if there were any, there'd be a good reason. Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
